Dec 30
DETROIT (MarketWatch) — Ford Motor Co. (F) will unveil next month a hands-free Bluetooth wireless system and in-vehicle operating system developed by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) as an option for its entire Ford brand lineup. I say it is just one more reason not to buy a Ford.
Rick Reilly: Strongest Dad In the World From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly [SI Premium Subscription required]
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I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.
Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars–all in the same day.
It was clear as early as June 2005 what the biggest news for Apple would be in 2006—that was the month when Steve Jobs announced Apple was jettisoning the PowerPC chip for new processors supplied by Apple. And while the Intel transition obviously dominated Apple’s maneuverings this year, it wasn’t the only news to come out of Cupertino.
Last Thursday night, the Puget Sound area was hit with one of the worst storms in over 30 years. With wind gusts over 90 miles per hour, over 1 million customers lost electrical power. Some customers will not have power for up to 10 days.
More information can be found here:
Seattle Times coverage (photos available here)
Thousands in region bracing for fifth night without power
Same intensity, more extensive damage than ’93 storm
I live on the “East side” of the Seattle metro area in one of the hardest hit areas.
For the New York Times, David Pogue reviews Windows Vista, trying to prove in his video that “Microsoft did not steal ideas from Mac OS X.” [Dec 15, 2006]
One the best speeches I have ever read, heard, or viewed regarding life work and the importance of doing what you love.
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The Parallels beta includes a new feature, called Coherence, that hides the Windows desktop and allows you to run Windows apps in their own windows on your Mac desktop. The result is that you can intermingle all your Mac and Windows apps on the same desktop. I know what you’re thinking: Disgusting! Unnatural!
Apple has broken its usual silence to slam well-publicised claims that iTunes sales are losing momentum; claims made by Forrester Resarch analyst, Josh Bernoff. Bernoff’s claims, which emerge just weeks after Microsoft’s launch of its Zune device, prompted Apple to issue an official rebuke
Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink Floyd’s first manager. Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury, Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg – who he manages today. He’s also secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum. And he doesn’t pull his punches.
Apple’s marketshare and browsershare have been marching upwards over the last several years, and this is no exception, a strong indication of Apple’s strength as a brand as its turning around of its historically very niche and marginal portion of the market.
Switch To a Mac breaks down a recent report showing that from November to November the Apple marketshare jumped 31%, a nice run. Another thing to note is that Macs started the year as 4.21% of the whole market, and right now are 5.39% of the market.
That’s still pretty niche, but to understand context, only a few years ago the Mac was 2 or 3% at most of the market.
Needham and Co.’s analyst Charles Wolf estimates that by 2016Apple will have 8.6% of the market. It’s a straight projection, however, remember that market adoption of products works in similar way to viral spreads, with exponential ‘tipping points’ where products ‘take off.’ It may be more of a case that Mac will either still be in 4-5% area, or it climbs significantly higher.
Some hints of this can be found in the Switch to a Mac’s analysis of Apple marketshare that shows very fast adoption rates of Intel processor Macs, the kinds of Macs that so-called ‘switchers’ are more likely to take a chance on due their ability to dual-boot Windows. Another demonstration of growing marketshare comes from a look at browser marketplace results, where the use of Mac browsers has jumped 45% to just a little over 4% of all browsers used.
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